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Junior Connor Halladay is expected to battle with freshman Austin Apodaca for Washington State's starting quarterback job. (AP)
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With Washington State's spring football practice in progress, the program's attention is firmly aimed at battles at the quarterback and offensive line positions.
Cougars coach Mike Leach joined 710 ESPN Seattle's "Afternoons with the Go 2 Guy" Monday and said his staff is focused on creating a culture of competition, which will help at both spots.
Under center, rising junior Connor Halladay is the front-runner after playing in nine of WSU's 12 games in 2012. But don't count out redshirt freshman Austin Apodaca.
"We've got two guys (back) that I think their ability level is similar," Leach said. "Connor's a little more experienced, so i think that he's a little ahead on the mental aspect of things, but Austin Apodaca's been doing some good things as well."
The Cougars will also have four-star recruit Tyler Bruggman incoming as a signal caller.
On the line, depth is a big plus compared to last year for WSU.
"We've got more bodies out there than we've had. I think they do provide some depth, and they also provide some competition," said Leach. "Both are desperately needed as far as improvement goes, and we're a little stronger, which I'm happy about too."
Depth is a point of emphasis for the Cougars in Leach's second year.
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Couple In Home Explosion North Of Larimore Need HelpWe have a full condition update on the victims of the home explosion just north of Larimore. They could also use assistance in getting to Nebraska, where they can both be together.
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We have a full condition update on the victims of the home explosion just north of Larimore.
We spoke on the phone with Justin McMahon's mother tonight who said Justin was just waking up from surgery on his legs.
This surgery took about four hours and was the fifth operation he has had since the explosion. In the explosion he lost the lower part of both of his legs.
But Danielle Bissell is not in as good of shape as McMahon. Her pelvis is held together with screws and is broken in three places. She also has a fractured neck. Her feet are crushed and she is still in a lot of pain. Because of her injuries she still cannot sit up.
Also, the couple lost their 6-month old daughter in the explosion.
McMahon is being released from the hospital in St. Paul next weekend and is headed to Nebraska so his mother can take care of him. But, Bissell still needs to be in the hospital. She can leave St. Paul and go to a Nebraska hospital to be close to McMahon, but because she cannot sit up she has to be transported either by ambulance or airplane, and that has to be arranged by the family.
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At first glance F.E.A.R 3 looks to be the shootiest shooter on the market, which is saying a lot with games like Black Ops, Homefront, and Halo. There's shooting in the suburbs, shooting in an airport, shooting in slums, and shooting in sewers. There are some semi-scary non-shooting sections to break it up a bit, but it's still a very shooty games as even the vehicle sections where very shooty.
That's not a bad thing as the shooting in the F.E.A.R games is some of the best in the business. Why you ask? Well the folks at Day 1 Studios have managed to retain and build on the great enemy AI from the previous games. When you face large groups of enemies they will attempt to flank you, suppress you with heavy fire, and all kinds of things you don't see in other shooters. They will actually run away to find better cover if you press them, which I was found out when I had flushed a guy out of cover and had to chase him through two rooms before finally cornering him.
This is helped by how they communicate with each other as you fight them. They will call to each other when they spot you,lose sight of you, and when they are hit. Of course the dialog is laced with expletives but it adds to the effect.
The other great part of the F.E.A.R. combat is the great slo-mo time system that allows you to slow time down, making it easy to accurately place bullets in heads and work your way close to enemies to unleash devastating melee attacks, another staple of the series. The combat is so rock solid that you don't mind the single mindedness of the game.
Before we get too much further let's talk about the backstory of the F.E.A.R universe. In the
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you played Point Man, a member of the F.E.A.R team who's sent to stop Paxton Fettel. Paxton is a psychic and he's managed to gain mental control of an army of super soldiers created by the Aramacham corporation. It turns out that things aren't quite as simple as Point Man and his team are assaulted by supernatural images and it turns out that they are being created by Paxton and his mother Alma.
In a Lucasian plot twist, it turns out that Paxton is Point Man's brother which makes things a bit awkward when Point Man kills Paxton and then detonates a bomb that was supposed to wipe out his mother and the rest of the F.E.A.R team.
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but after finishing the game and scanning the F.E.A.R 2 wikipedia page, the only thing you need to know about it is that Alma survived the blast and now has a bun in her haunted little oven.
F.E.A.R 3 takes place nine months after the events of F.E.A.R 2. Point Man has been captured by the Armacham and is being held prisoner until he is freed by his brother, who has somehow come back from the dead. Now you must join together and try to save/stop your mother from destroying the world.
Remember how I talked about all the shooting? Well that's actually only part of the story as the campaign portion of the game can be played three ways. You can play it as Point Man, Fettel, or co-op with a friend. While it's the same missions and structure, the game plays differently depending on which option you choose. If you choose Point Man, it's shooting time. If you play as Fettel, then you have a completely different skill set. Fettel can't use weapons himself but he does have a blast skill that he can use to harm enemies directly and he can pick up and throw things.
Fettel's main skill allows him to possess the bodies of enemies. This lets him use weapons and kill enemies which puts a completely different spin on the game as you have to think about the enemies you possess and how you want to get through a level. You do have to finish a level with Point Man before you can re-play it with Fettel though, which is odd but semi-understandable.
I didn't get a chance to try the co-op mode but I could see where having the two characters playing together would create some fun opportunities. Part of Fettel's possession ability allows him to levitate enemies so having one person lift while the other shoots offers some fun possibilities.
The single player campaign isn't that short either as it took me about seven hours to get through one play through with Point Man and that's playing the last half of the game on the easy mode. The game does get hard in places, even on the easy difficulty. It doesn't get controller throwing hard but I will admit to that I had to walk away more than once. The game does encourage replay with the two ways to play through the campaign and it does score your performance along the way so perfectionists will want to go back and try to claim the top spot on the game's leaderboards.
I do have to give props to the folks at Day One for some of the level design in the game. Chief among them is the third level where it takes place as a bulk food store (think CostCo/Sam's Club) and features some good scares mixed with some solid action.
Some of the horror/scary levels occasionally venture into cheesy haunted house territory but the game does offer some decent scares and builds suspense in some of the key areas toward the end. That said it would have been nice to have the occasional puzzle or even jumping puzzle to break up the non-stop shooting in the game.
Plot wise the game can be a little hard to follow, especially at the start. The game does clear things up a bit towards the end but I'm still not sure I understood all the story nuances. The game does have different endings depending on which character you play and if you play the game with a partner, be prepared to be judged on how you played it in comparison to your companion.
The game also ships with four multiplayer modes, Fu**king Run, Soul Survivor, Soul King, and Contractions. Since the game was reviewed before release, I could not play with actual people who owned it so these impressions are based on a 60 minute session with members of the PR and development team.
Fu**king Run has you and three compatriots running and gunning through various maps while being chased by an ever moving Wall of Death. If any member of your party touches it, the level ends and you're forced to re-start. Each dash is about 90 seconds or so in length which doesn't sound like a lot until you hear and see the wall chasing you.
Soul Survivor and Contractions are twists on the now ubiquitous horde mode. In Contractions you must defend a base against ever increasing waves of enemies. Between each round you can run out and get supplies that produce new weapons and ammo from the surround area. However you don't want to get caught outside the base as that's almost instant death (yes, I kept getting caught outside the area).
Soul Survivor is the same thing but with one twist. Instead of facing increasing hordes of enemies, at the start of each round one member of your group is "corrupted" by Alma and must wipe out the party by using the creatures that spawn against the group. It's a really nice twist that I enjoyed once I figured out what I was doing.
Soul King was the one mode I had the most trouble with as each player starts as a spectre and the goal is to possess the AI enemies in the game. Each possession gains you points that you hold onto until you are killed. Killing someone/getting killed releases half the points which you much rush to take. It's a little chaotic and a little confusing to get used to but it's something I could get used to with a little more practice.
For me F.E.A.R 3 was a fairly satisfying experience as the combat in the game is just top notch. There's something magical about how the AI, Slo-Mo, melee combat, and weapons all work together. It's not a perfect game as the game's multiplayer focus is shown by having a single player lobby that games are launched from but it's still a fun even though it's a bit grindy in parts and the graphics are a smidge dated in a few sections. It's an acquired taste, but if you like guns and tight combat it's one you'll enjoy.
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Health officials continue to keep a close watch on the meningitis outbreak linked to recalled steroid injections.
The Ohio Department of Health recently published a Food and Drug Administration list of 64 facilities in the state that received products of any kind from the New England Compounding Center. But ODH spokeswoman Tessie Pollock says this is a precaution since, so far, only 3 lots of one particular steroid from NECC have been linked to the fungal meningitis.
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Mothers usually set about teaching their offspring the moment they're born. But the females of one Australian bird can't wait that long.
Superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) mothers sing to their unhatched eggs to teach the embryo inside a 'password' — a single unique note — which the nestlings must later incorporate into their begging calls if they want to get fed.
The trick allows fairy-wren parents to distinguish between their own offspring and those of the two cuckoo species that frequently invade their nests. The female birds also teach their mates the password.
Fairy-wrens were known to discriminate against cuckoo nestlings on the basis of their foreign begging calls, says Sonia Kleindorfer, an animal behaviourist at Flinders University in Adelaide, who led the work. But it wasn't known that wren nestlings learned the passwords before hatching.
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The researchers stumbled across the embryonic learning quite by accident. They were recording inside the birds' domed nests in search of anti-predator calls when they noticed that female fairy-wrens were singing to their unhatched eggs.
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"Engaging Tomorrow's Leaders in Safety and Health" Subject of Snare Speech
OSHA Issues Direct Final Rule on Roll-Over Protective Structures Standards
OSHA Offers Tips to Protect Workers in Cold Environments
Michigan OSHA Sponsors Industrial Ventilation Conference
Chain Saw Recalled by Consumer Product Safety Commission
ACS Added to OSHA and Chemical Reactivity Hazards Management Alliance
Hurricane-related Training for Response Workers
Gulf Coast Construction Safety Conference
Regional VPP Recognition Update
Latest Regional Alliances Formed with OSHA
Voluntary Protection Programs Activity
OSHA Certifies Newest "SHARP" Companies
OSHA Proposes $788,000 in Penalties to St. Louis-based Manufacturer
"Engaging Tomorrow's Leaders in Safety and Health" Subject of Snare Speech
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jonathan L. Snare addressed scholars, business professionals, and policy makers Jan. 13 at the Center for Business and Public Policy Workplace Safety and Health Seminar in Washington. The event, sponsored by Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, included the signing of a new alliance between OSHA and the Center which emphasizes good business practices through training and education, outreach and communication, and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health.
OSHA Issues Direct Final Rule on Roll-Over Protective Structures Standards
OSHA is seeking public comments until Jan. 30, 2006, on a direct final rule to reinstate its original roll-over protective structures (ROPS) standards for the construction and agriculture industries that protect workers who operate wheel-type tractors. The agency conducted a thorough evaluation of the original ROPS standards and those implemented under a 1996 technical amendment that revised standards for testing of ROPS. OSHA is proposing to reinstate the original ROPS standards after identifying several substantive differences between national consensus standards and the original standards. See the Dec. 29, 2005, Federal Register notice for details on submitting comments.
OSHA Offers Tips to Protect Workers in Cold Environments
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Michigan OSHA Sponsors Industrial Ventilation Conference
A four-day conference focusing on the design, construction, use and testing of industrial ventilation systems will be held Feb. 13-16 at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. Sponsored by Michigan OSHA, the conference affords participants opportunities to work through actual ventilation design problems with industrial ventilation experts from throughout the United States and Canada. More information is available on the conference's Web site, or by calling the conference chairperson at (517) 322-6560.
Chain Saw Recalled by Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Jan. 11 the voluntary recall of Stihl-brand MS 192 T Chain Saws. According to CPSC, these saws can leak fuel, posing a fire hazard. A problem with the saw's clutch assembly springs-which can allow a spring to be projected from the saw housing-has also been discovered. Visit OSHA's Web site for more information on "Working Safely with Chain Saws."
ACS Added to OSHA and Chemical Reactivity Hazards Management Alliance
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jonathan L. Snare recently signed an addendum adding the American Chemical Society (ACS) to the alliance between OSHA and the Chemical Reactivity Hazards Management group. ACS joins the group consisting of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; American Chemistry Council; Center for Chemical Process Safety; Chlorine Institute Inc.; Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; National Association of Chemical Distributors; and Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association. Originally signed on March 30, 2004, the alliance highlights health and safety issues for workers involved in the manufacture, distribution, use and storage of chemicals.
Hurricane-related Training for Response Workers
Safety and health training is being offered for hurricane response workers. The John Archer AGC Center West, Mobile, Ala., will host an 8-hour class on mold on Jan. 17, and the OSHA 7600 Disaster Site Worker Course on Feb. 1-2. To register for either class, contact Charlotte Kopf at (251) 344-8220. Troy University, Dothan, Ala., also will host the course on mold on Jan. 19, and the OSHA 7600 class on Feb. 22-23. For registration information, call Mary Davis at (334) 983-6556, ext. 1424. OSHA's Mobile, Ala., Area Office contact is William N. Bice, compliance assistance specialist, at (251) 441-5489.
Gulf Coast Construction Safety Conference
A safety conference focusing on safety and health issues for workers involved in construction and recovery operations along the U.S. Gulf Coast is scheduled for March 14 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Greater Gulf State Fairgrounds in Mobile, Ala. "Safely Rebuilding the Gulf Coast" is sponsored by Alabama Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Alabama-Mobile Chapter and the Alabama Homebuilders Association. To register, contact Charlotte Kopf, AGC Mobile Chapter, at (251) 344-8220. OSHA contact is William N. Bice at (251) 441-5489.
Regional VPP Recognition Update
Region I: OSHA's Boston Region recognized Rogers Corporation High Performance Foams - Poron of Woodstock, Conn., as a Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) "Star" site. Marthe Kent, OSHA New England regional administrator, praised the plant for its injury and illness rates being well below the average industry rates for foam products manufacturing. Kent also recognized Lenox's American Saw & Mfg. Co. plant in East Longmeadow, Mass., for again receiving "Star" certification for its safety and health management system, and acknowledged Ahlstrom Manufacturing plant in Windsor Locks, Conn., for achieving VPP "Merit" status for its safety and health management programs. Al J. Morrissey, OSHA's New England assistant regional administrator for cooperative programs, recently presented the VPP "Star" award to Calpine Dighton Power in North Dighton, Mass., and noted that "the safety and health culture at this site is remarkable. No safety and health issue is too minor to be addressed and examined." Region VI: The Drilling Specialties Co., Conroe, Texas, plant earned its membership into the "Star" family for its effective workplace safety and health management system. Region X: Richard Terrill, OSHA Seattle regional administrator, recognized the U.S. Postal Service Boise, Idaho, Processing and Distribution Center for its outstanding commitment to workplace safety and health. The site has an injury/illness rate that is 64 percent lower than the average postal facility, and has reduced its injuries and illnesses by more than 60 percent in the last three years.
Latest Regional Alliances Formed with OSHA
Region I: Enhancing safe and healthful working conditions for plumbers and pipefitters in New Hampshire is the goal of a newly signed alliance between OSHA's Concord, N.H., Area Office and the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Consultation Program and Local 131 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industries of the United States and Canada. The three organizations will work together to share best practices and technical knowledge, especially in the area of construction safety and health. Region II: OSHA's Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y., Area Offices teamed up with the Associated General Contractors, New York State Chapter Inc. to focus on protecting employees' safety and health through the development of training and education programs that address hazards associated with heavy and highway construction work. The New York State Small Business Development Centers teamed up with OSHA's Albany, N.Y., Area Office to promote safe and healthful working places in the Albany, North Country and Mid-Hudson regions. Alliance members will collaborate together to develop and disseminate information on safety excellence and management. Region IV: The Georgia Department of Labor, and Georgia Institute of Technology, Safety, Health and Environmental Technology Division signed an alliance Jan. 9 with OSHA's Atlanta Region to promote free safety and health training for small business owners and employees. The training, offered in both English and Spanish, will target safe work practices for work zones, electrical operations, power tools, personal protective equipment, trenching and excavating, fall protection and roofing operations. Region V: Fostering safer and healthier work environments is the focus of an alliance between OSHA's Toledo, Ohio, Area Office and the Safety Council of Northwest Ohio. The agreement focuses on providing safety and health information to employers and employees, and sharing best practices to prevent exposure to workplace hazards. Workers in central Illinois stand to benefit from an alliance signed between the Illinois Council on Long Term Care and OSHA's Des Plaines, Ill., Area Office designed to reduce and prevent some of the most common nursing home injuries and illnesses.
Voluntary Protection Programs Activity
The following companies were approved this month for new or continued participation in OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP): Region I: Hamilton Sundstrand Corp., Windsor Locks, Conn. (New Star); Ahlstrom, Windsor Locks, Conn. (New Merit); CYRO Industries, Sanford, Maine (Cont. Star); Masspower, Indian Orchard, Mass. (Cont. Star); Earth Tech Inc., Saint Johnsbury Operations, Saint Johnsbury, Vt. (New Star) Region II: Georgia Pacific, Corrugated Paper Group, Milford, N.J. (New Star); Curtis Lumber, Ft. Plain, N.Y. (New Star); Pactiv Rigid Packaging, Canandaigua, N.Y. (Cont. Star); Curtis Lumber, Delmar, N.Y. (New Star); Curtis Lumber, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (New Star); L'Oreal USA, Luxury Products Division, Monmouth Junction, N.J. (New Star); Motorola, Elma, N.Y. (New Star) Region III: Exopack LLC, Hazleton, Pa. (Cont. Star); PPL Corp., General Office Complex, Allentown, Pa. (New Star); International Paper, Mt. Carmel, Pa. (Cont. Star); Cytec Industries Inc., Willow Island, W.Va. (Cont. Star); Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va. (Cont. Star); Covanta Energy, Delaware Valley Facility, Chester, Pa. (New Star); Springs Window Fashions, Montgomery, Pa. (New Star); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, W.Va. (New Star) Region IV: An Med Health Medical Center, Anderson, S.C. (New Star); Georgia Pacific, Leaf River Sawmill, New Augusta, Miss. (Cont. Star); Propes Fabrics Inc., Hazlehurst, Ga. (Cont. Star); Int'l Paper, Riverdale Wet Storage, Selma, Ala. (Cont. Star); Olin Corporation, Augusta, Ga. (Cont. Star); Entergy, Delta Plant, Cleveland, Miss. (New Star); Calpine Corporation, Morgan Energy Center, Decatur, Ala. (New Star); International Paper, Dry Creek Woodyard, Prattville, Ala. (Cont. Star); United Space Alliance LLC, Huntsville Operations, Huntsville, Ala. (Cont. Star); Pratt & Whitney, Columbus Plant, Columbus, Ga. (Cont. Star); Stepan Company, Winder, Ga. (Cont. Star) Region V: DSM NeoResins, Frankfort, Ind. (New Merit); Frito-Lay Inc., Frankfort, Ind. (New Star); Meyer Stamping & Manufacturing, Fort Wayne, Ind. (New Star); Rockport Maintenance, Rockport, Ind. (New Star); Flint Hills Resources-Pine Bend Refinery, Rosemont, Minn. (New Star); Pactiv EZ Foil, Wheeling, Ill. (New Star); 3M Company, Eau Claire, Wis. (New Star); General Electric, Oil and Gas Operations LLC, Oshkosh, Wis. (New Star); General Electric, Peebles Test Operation, Peebles, Ohio (Cont. Star); General Electric, Reuter-Stokes, Twinsburg, Ohio (Cont. Star). (QuickTakes will publish VPP activity for Regions VI-X in the Feb. 1 issue.)
OSHA Certifies Newest "SHARP" Companies
OSHA recently certified the following companies as Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) sites: Region II: York Modern Corporation, Unadilla, N.Y.; Hagen Pet Foods Inc., Waverly, N.Y.; Troy Belting & Supply Company, Watervliet, N.Y.; Williams Lumber & Home Centers, Rhinebeck, N.Y.; NIBCO Inc., South Glens Falls, N.Y.; Candlelight Cabinetry Inc., Lockport, N.Y. Region III: Littlestown Foundry Inc., Littlestown, Pa. Region IV: American Dehydrated Foods, Hanceville, Ala.; Yachiyo Manufacturing of Alabama, Steele, Ala.; Carolina Rest Home, Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; Environmental Air Systems, High Point, N.C.; Gilead Science, Durham, N.C.; Leggett & Platt Inc., Furniture Components Division, High Point, N.C.; Milkco Inc., Asheville, N.C.; Purolator Engineered Filtration Products, Shelby, N.C.; Tubular Textiles LLC, Lexington, N.C.; ARJ Manufacturing LLC, Jackson, Tenn. (QuickTakes will publish the most recent SHARP-certified companies from Regions VI-X in the Feb. 1 issue.)
OSHA Proposes $788,000 in Penalties to St. Louis-based Manufacturer
John J. Steuby Co. was cited Jan. 12 for more than 50 alleged safety and health violations-including 12 willful citations-as a result of an employee complaint. OSHA's inspection revealed a past history of numerous machine operation injuries, including amputations. Referring to the case, Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao said the department "will take serious actions to protect workers' health and safety at the workplace." The company manufactures machined metal products for the automotive, appliance, bearing, ordinance, hydraulic, plumbing hardware and commercial-fittings industries.
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A defeat to BATE Borisov in the Champions League has been the only setback for Bayern so far this season, but Heynckes is only interested in the three points tomorrow [Saturday].
"Records don't mean anything to me," he said. "They are something for the history books or for statisticians."
"I think that my team will carry on from where we left off (before the international break) against Hoffenheim,"
Since that 2-0 win at the Allianz Arena, seven members of Heynckes' squad were involved in a dramatic game for Germany in which they threw away a 4-0 lead to draw 4-4 for with Sweden, but Heynckes does not expect that to have any impact tomorrow [Saturday].
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The AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan began on Thursday at the Twin Ring Motegi as Repsol Honda Team's Marc Marquez was joined by Yamaha Factory Racing duo Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi, Avintia Blusens' Hiroshi Aoyama, Tuenti HP 40's Moto2 title contender Pol Espargaro and Italtrans Racing Team's Takaaki Nakagami in the Thursday pre-race press conference.
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Ethiopia officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the north-east. Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world and Africa's second-most populous nation.
Published: Thursday, September 04, 2008
Background History
Country Name:
- conventional long form: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- conventional short form: Ethiopia
- local long form: Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik
- local short form: Ityop'iya
- former: Abyssinia, Italian East Africa
- name: Addis Ababa
- population: 2,863,000
- geographic coordinates: 9 02 N, 38 42 E
- time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world - at least 2,000 years
Government Type:
- Federal Republic
Executive Branch:
- chief of state: President Girma Woldegiorgis (since 8 October 2001)
- head of government: Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (since August 1995)
- cabinet: Council of Ministers ministers selected by the prime minister and approved by the House of People's Representatives
- elections: president elected by both chambers of Parliament for a six-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 9 October 2007 (next to be held in October 2013)
Legislative Branch:
- structure: bicameral Parliament consists of the House of Federation and the House of People's Representatives
Judicial Branch:
- structure: Federal Supreme Court
People & Society
- 93,815,992 (global rank: 13)
- growth rate: 2.142% (global rank: 42)
- noun: Ethiopian(s)
- adjective: Ethiopian
Major Cities:
Addis Ababa (capital): 2.863 million
Ethnic Groups:
Oromo 34.5%, Amara 26.9%, Somalie 6.2%, Tigraway 6.1%, Sidama 4%, Guragie 2.5%, Welaita 2.3%, Hadiya 1.7%, Affar 1.7%, Gamo 1.5%, Gedeo 1.3%, other 11.3%
Orthodox 43.5%, Muslim 33.9%, Protestant 18.6%, traditional 2.6%, Catholic 0.7%, other 0.7%
Amarigna (Amharic) (official) 32.7%, Oromigna (official regional) 31.6%, Tigrigna (official regional) 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (official) (major foreign language taught in schools), Arabic (official)
Life Expectancy at Birth:
- total population: 56.56 years (global rank: 195)
- male: 53.99 years
- female: 59.21 years
Infant Mortality:
- total population: 75.29 deaths/1,000 live births (global rank: 14)
- male: 86.03 deaths/1,000 live births
- female: 64.23 deaths/1,000 live births
- adult prevalence rate: NA
- people living with AIDS: NA
- definition: age 15 and over can read and write
- total population: 42.7%
- male: 50.3%
- female: 35.1%
Overview: Ethiopia's poverty-stricken economy is based on agriculture, accounting for almost 50% of GDP, and 85% of total employment. The agricultural sector suffers from frequent drought and poor cultivation practices. Coffee is critical to the Ethiopian economy with exports of some $350 million in 2006, but historically low prices have seen many farmers switching to qat to supplement income. Under Ethiopia's constitution, the state owns all land and provides long-term leases to the tenants; the system continues to hamper growth in the industrial sector as entrepreneurs are unable to use land as collateral for loans. In November 2001, Ethiopia qualified for debt relief from the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, and in December 2005 the IMF forgave Ethiopia's debt. The global economic downturn led to balance of payments pressures, partially alleviated by recent emergency funding from the IMF. While GDP growth has remained high, per capita income is among the lowest in the world.
Gross Domestic Product:
- GDP (PPP): $94.76 billion (global rank: 73)
- GDP per capita (PPP): $1,100 (global rank: 207)
- real growth rate: 7.5% (global rank: 13)
- composition by sector: agriculture: 49.3%, industry: 11.1%, services: 39.6%
- currency: Birr (ETB)
- exchange rate (per US Dollar): 17.2
- population below poverty line: 38.7%
- unemployment rate: NA
Agricultural Products:
cereals, pulses, coffee, oilseed, cotton, sugarcane, potatoes, qat, cut flowers; hides, cattle, sheep, goats; fish
food processing, beverages, textiles, leather, chemicals, metals processing, cement
Exports Commodities:
coffee, qat, gold, leather products, live animals, oilseeds
Imports Commodities:
food and live animals, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, machinery, motor vehicles, cereals, textiles
Eastern Africa, west of Somalia
- total:1,104,300 sq km (global rank: 45)
- land: 1 million sq km
- water: 104,300 sq km
- comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas
tropical monsoon with wide topographic-induced variation
Land Use:
- arable land: 10.01%
- permanent crops: 0.65%
- other: 89.34%
Natural Resources:
small reserves of gold, platinum, copper, potash, natural gas, hydropower
Current Environmental Issues:
deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; water shortages in some areas from water-intensive farming and poor management
Transnational Issues
- international disputes: Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by the 2002 Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision, but neither party responded to the revised line detailed in the November 2006 EEBC Demarcation Statement; the undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera and trade ties to landlocked Ethiopia; civil unrest in eastern Sudan has hampered efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia
- refugees (country of origin): 66,980 (Sudan); 16,576 (Somalia); 13,078 (Eritrea)
- internally displaced persons: 200,000 (border war with Eritrea from 1998-2000, ethnic clashes in Gambela, and ongoing Ethiopian military counterinsurgency in Somali region; most IDPs are in Tigray and Gambela Provinces)
- illicit drugs: transit hub for heroin originating in Southwest and Southeast Asia and destined for Europe, as well as cocaine destined for markets in southern Africa; cultivates qat (khat) for local use and regional export, principally to Djibouti and Somalia (legal in all three countries); the lack of a well-developed financial system limits the country's utility as a money laundering center
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They don't make empires the way they used to. Take the imperial brag. Here is George Nathaniel, Viscount Curzon—the most grandiloquent, if not the greatest, Viceroy of India—and the subject of David Gilmour's elegant biography, "Curzon" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $45), waxing epic-messianic on the British imperial mission: "To me the message is carved in granite; it is hewn out of the rock of doom—that our work is righteous and that it shall endure." And here is Proconsul Jay Garner, musing on the prospects of the American imperium in Iraq: "If we make headway on a lot of major things, we will put ourselves in a marvellous up-ramp where things can begin happening. If we don't do that we're on a negative ramp."
And, frankly, the dress code has gone right down the thunder box. Meeting with the Emir of Afghanistan, in 1894, Curzon appeared in a uniform acquired at a theatrical costumier, complete with operatic epaulettes, a curved sword borrowed in India, and a row of clinking medals. Installed as Viceroy five years later, Curzon, who was a stickler for protocol, insisted that his councillors don white knee breeches and white silk stockings for formal occasions, as he himself did, and not "take refuge in the less dangerous but irregular trouser." Proconsul Garner, on the other hand, appeared in Dress-Down Friday casuals and proceeded to wander amiably around the streets of his shattered bailiwick, like a Scout leader vaguely searching for his Eagle Troop. His successor, Proconsul L. Paul Bremer III, favors the battle dress of the C.E.O.—crisply pressed suit, high-end haircut, peekaboo breast-pocket handkerchief—to project an air of mildly corporate persuasiveness, just the right note for an empire that fancies it can be run like a business opportunity, and busies itself handing out contracts to the willing while failing to mop up the brimming sewage. But then ours is an empire, unlike Curzon's, that wishes it weren't there—at least, not as another election season comes into view. Was there ever an empire whose new subjects had to implore their rulers to supply rudimentary law and order?
Curzon had no doubt that the only justification for empire was the efficiency of its administration. In the choice between good government (as he saw it) and self-government, he believed that his duty was emphatically to the former when it came to India. This was best provided by a paternalist state, staffed by disinterested professional public servants, intervening to guarantee the common decencies of life—uncontaminated water, for example, whether in Birmingham or Bombay. Democratic self-determination was certainly worthwhile in the fullness of time, but it was not going to put rice on the table.
These were, more or less, the maxims with which Curzon grew up, and which he seldom abandoned in forty years' service to an empire that was, as the dedication to one of his many books put it, "under Providence the greatest instrument for good the world has ever seen." Many of his generation, born around the middle of the nineteenth century, felt the same righteous intoxication. Although the British had come to India, in the eighteenth century, to make money, the making of it required military force—just enough, of course, to create the political stability needed for the Anglo-Indian economy to take off under its own steam. But the wars, instead of calming India, had a nasty way of stirring it up, either inside the country or on its frontiers, and this triggered yet more intervention, until, somehow, the British, who had never meant to be occupiers, occupied virtually the entire subcontinent. With that unlooked-for transformation from a trading power to a governing power, the rationale for the Raj changed. Instead of making profits, the idea was to make India a better place. Instead of businessmen, Britain sent out Improvers, educated in Indian languages at Haileybury College, zealous secular missionaries for Victorian education and morality. In a valedictory speech delivered in Bombay, Curzon, who communed almost obsessively with the ghosts of Viceroys past, faithfully reiterated this ideal:
Remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of His ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time, and to feel that somewhere among these millions you have left a little justice or happiness or prosperity.
As a boy at Eton College in the mid-eighteen-seventies, Curzon heard a speech by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, the legal member of the Viceroy's Council, which seems to have fired his personal sense of mission. Stephen's father, James, had been among the first generation of India's Westernizers, who believed that the colonized would be led toward self-determination but only after many generations during which the imperial guardians would supply the rule of law, Anglophone education, and, above all, the peace needed for the flowering of prosperity. The toiling peasant, freed from the brutal exactions of native tax collectors, would be able to break through a cycle of subsistence, and produce crops (like raw cotton) actually demanded by British manufacturers and consumers. As the thrifty cultivator prospered, so other demands would make themselves spontaneously felt: literacy, sanitation, and, finally, responsible citizenship.
This was the "partnership," often mentioned by imperial apologists, whose consummation would be the blessed day when power could be responsibly transferred from rulers to ruled; the Union Jack would flutter down the flagpole while a band of marines, their pith helmets blancoed to dazzling whiteness, played Elgar, and an audience of grateful native beneficiaries politely applauded and made their way to the tea tent. It seldom turned out that way. The "empire of free trade" was free only up to a point. When it worked to flood the Indian market (once the province of a thriving native cotton-print industry) with inexpensive manufactured goods, it could be upheld, but, if Indian textiles threatened to make inroads in Britain, tariff manipulations made sure that they remained uncompetitive.


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Investigating first a sadistic criminal whose aim is to leave his victims with locked-in syndrome (like Jean-Dominique Bauby, protagonist of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") in "Sleepyhead," and then a pair of serial killers that may be working in tandem in "Scaredy Cat," Thorne gives himself over to his work in a way that's almost as troubling as the crimes he's trying to solve. Morrissey's a great fit for the character -- he shares the screen with talent that includes Eddie Marsan, Aidan Gillen, Natascha McElhone and Sandra Oh -- and we're not the only ones who thought so, as you'll see below.
The actor's also about to become a much more familiar face to U.S. TV audiences -- it was announced in February that he'll be taking on the role of the infamous Governor on the new season of "The Walking Dead," a villain far more dangerous than the zombies the characters have to fend off. Indiewire caught up with Morrissey on the phone shortly before he headed off to start work on the AMC series.
I was doing a film in New Zealand called "The Water Horse," which was rife with green screen. For an actor, that can mean you have a lot of time on your hands, so I raided the bookshops. One of the books I picked up was "Sleepyhead," by Mark Billingham. I really enjoyed it. I Googled him and came across an interview he did, where he said, "If the books ever came to the screen, I couldn't think of anybody better than David Morrissey to play the role of Tom Thorne." I thought, oh, well, that's fun. I got in touch with him, and when I got back to the U.K. I bought the rights to the novel. Sky came on board and they were very supportive, and we made the series.
What was it about the character of Thorne that appealed to you?
In that particular book, it was the idea of a man who was married to his job, who only comes alive when he's working -- he has no other life, really. And he recognizes that that isn't a healthy situation, but he's slightly stuck. This case comes along, this girl who was deliberately put into a comatose state by a killer who wants to freeze people. That's a terrible crime for anybody, but for Thorne it has this resonance, it becomes a personal crusade for him. That connection with the victim was something I hadn't really seen played out before. I love the fact that Thorne has this massive empathy for certain victims -- in the second series, "Scaredy Cat," it's a young boy who's seen his mother killed.
I read a lot, and I'll read thinking, 'Would this make a film? Would this be a good character?' I know a book is good when those questions stop hitting my head, when I just get involved in the story. With "Sleepyhead," it was absolutely that -- I just gave into the fact that this was a great story. It was afterward that I had to start thinking about how to put it on screen.
In addition to being a novelist, Mark Billingham has also worked as an actor and has written for television. Did that make adapting his books easier?
He was very amenable. His wife is a TV director, so he'd been involved in the world a lot. There were certain things in the characterization and story that he wanted to keep hold of, and nine times out of ten they were things that I wanted to keep hold of as well. The great thing was that he recognized that if you're going to get a screenwriter involved, you have to be able to give them license to go away and discover it themselves, and he did do that. Then Stephen Hopkins came in to direct the show. He'd done "24" and "Californication," and I'd worked with him before on a film called "The Reaping" that we'd done down in Louisiana. He's a wonderful director, and he came and added that next element to it -- this great pace and look and design.


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I've been wondering recently about how people simply vanish from our lives and how we vanish from other peoples' lives--all this vanishing while we're still alive. So far I've thought of two reasons. There is the pace of modern living which makes intimacy difficult in spite of emailing; we just can't, we feel, spend or take the time it takes to grow a relationship. More recently I've thought we vanish from each other's lives when we can no longer be playful together. Put another way, our games have become finite (winners and losers) -- as if we have lost touch with a playfulness which is infinite, where the goal of the play is to just keep on playing and where we change the rules to make this happen.Watchya think?
Of course, some people vanish from our lives because of our actions toward them-- which we may not even know about, but which have hurt or insulted them.
I believe that people come in and out of our lives because they're meant to teach us certain lessons. When people vanish, it can be because their role was simply to plant a seed, which will grow over time as our awareness evolves. I've moved 10 times in the last 15 years including Tokyo, London twice, Holland, TX and PA. Oh, and NC, where we live now. I used to think that leaving equated to vanishing, but I've found that even when I haven't heard from someone in years, I'll suddenly get a message that they're coming to visit. I'm moved by the fact that friendship is not dependent on regular communication. I take great comfort in the fact that friends are like energy. There's no loss or destruction, even as forms change. They'll always be our friends, simply because we've exchanged the gift of our spirits.Donna
T-Well, I'm reacting to another interpretation of a friend's vanishing - because of death. A friend died this week and I just can't get my head around the fact that I won't see him again. It continues to be a surprise for me many times a day. It changes perspective of course, the fact that someone's in your life and then just gone makes me look around at who's still here in this musical chairs game. So when it's not a vanishing out of choice or apathy or just being busy, it sure the hell is final. Nothing enlightening here I guess, just some thoughts ...-P
This question stays with me especially since I have grown more solitary in the last few years in many ways. I ran into this today from John Dunne's book, The Reasons of the Heart, A Journey into Solitude and Back into the Human Circle: "To be loved means to be consumed," Rilke says, "to love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure." As long as he lives in the excitement of understanding and loving, he will give light with inexhaustible oil, he will endure. If he once turns toward being understood and being loved, he fears, he will begin to be consumed, he will begin to pass away."and later...... Actually a person's story can be told in different ways, with different degrees of inwardness, the most inward being that of the spiritual adventure. In its least inward form it is the story of what happens to him, of the things and situations of his life. In a somewhat more inward form it is the story of the choices he makes, how he relates to things and situations. In a still more inward form it is the story of what he says, or better, of what he has to say, the story of his message, of what he has to communicate to others, his insight into his experience. In its most inward form, as that of a spiritual adventure, it is the story of the meaning he embodies in his life and death, the story of what he incarnates.Telling the story of what has happened to him, our solitary man would have to tell how in pursuing the fulfillment of his deepest needs, his longing for communion on the deepest level of his life, he has let his other needs, especially his longing for simple human intimacy, go unfulfilled."Is Dunne saying that it is possible that in our search for that deeper communion we might slip into and get caught by a spiritual adventure that somehow takes us away from our simple human needs of our communion with one another. Is it possible that many of us have stayed too long in the inner sphere (acted out in our neighborhoodless society), perhaps fueled by a disappointment for not sustaining the ecstacy of Love. My take on all of this relates back to what you are saying about playing together. What do I mean by playing together? Giving and receiving out of the fullness of who we are. Risking the disappointment by allowing myself to be carried into communication with another without expectations of you fulfilling my spiritual needs. And this requires, I see now, time for that sacred communion with Other (PW) and back Out again. My first Write in the introductory course showed me how I vanish from myself by how it is that I return. And it is no wonder that I vanish from others if I am not also at home.
Jann Patrice
Toby, it's been very enlightening to think about relationships I've had that have ended, in the way you're talking about it here. It takes the blame out of relationships I've been in that have ended, whether it was me doing the vanishing, or the other. And a useful way to describe the feeling of suffocation, on the one hand (the one vanishing) and fear on the other, fear of the infinite.Joan
I've just re-read all the messages in this thread. So many wise and interesting things said. Any thoughts on a felt-sense that this is the (historical?) moment for more worldly manifestation? finding one's truer work? being less caught up in our vanishing modes? More present ot ourselves and so to others?
As the old musician/ magician says " you have to appear or you disappear"or was it"you have to appear before you disappear" ?
I think, Toby, that we have not lost touch with our playfulness. But we have let fear get in the way. When we set the fear aside, and we can, we can play forever. This infinite game is what keeps us pulsing with life and longing.
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Throughout each year, beer weeks that celebrate the culture and community of craft brewers are happening across the US. One can quickly search 'beer week' on the Internet to get a multitude of options. The Brewers Association is happy to assemble American Craft Beer Week, the mother of all beer weeks, each May. This celebration, coordinated by the Craft Beer Program, is an exciting opportunity for craft brewers to commemorate their art and tradition with enthusiasts across the country .
Bottoms up, beer lovers. If you're looking for an excuse to hoist a cold one, here's a reason: It's American Craft Beer Week. -USA Today May 2011
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In 2006, the Brewers Association American Beer Month, which was traditionally in July, was changed to be a weeklong coordinated effort timed before the busy summer beer season. One week's worth of national activities was found to be more manageable and thus more effective. Plus, the term 'craft' was added to the title in order to dial in the focus of the events. This week became the largest national effort focusing on American craft beer and remains so today.
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When the Eames debuted their now-legendary shell chair in 1950, it became the first mass-produced plastic chair in the world. This wasn't just an aesthetic icon—it was also a wonder of manufacturing and engineering. Now, Herman Miller is giving us a glimpse of how it's made. Read More >>
The Fibonacci number (or sequence, or series) is the mathematical rule that defines the golden spiral, a beautiful growing pattern that appears in many places in nature. It also appears on YouTube when you search "Fibonacci," and it's just silly enough to make us smile. Read More >>
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Brown, Grassley wonder if some banks are "too big to jail"
The Columbus Dispatch - January 29, 2013 1:01 PM
Sen. Sherrod Brown wants to know: Does "too big to fail" mean "too big to jail?"
Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder questioning the federal government can effectively prosecute banks that have been deemed "too big to fail."
Specifically, they want to know if the federal government can prosecute those banks and impose penalties on them. They also want Justice Department to disclose the identities of parties that prosecutors consult with about the appropriate level of penalties for financial institutions.
"Already, the nation's six largest megabanks enjoy what amounts to taxpayer-funded guarantee by virtue of their size, making it harder for regional and community banks to compete," Brown, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement. "Now, these megabanks may also enjoy some impunity when they violate the law by laundering money or illegally foreclosing on homeowners. Wall Street should pay the full price of its wrongdoing, not pass the costs along to taxpayers."
"The large number of private and government lawsuits since the global financial crisis continues to undermine public confidence in our financial markets," the two senators wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder. "This confidence can only be restored by demonstrating that there are consistent rules in place that provide accountability for wrongdoing and deter financial predators…. Our markets will only function efficiently if participants believe that all laws will be enforced consistently, and that violators will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. There should not be one set of rules that apply to Wall Street and another set for the rest of us.


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A major point of pride of Chippewa Athletics is the continued academic success of CMU student-athletes. Success in today's academic realm is no longer defined by the same standards that it was 20, 10 or even five years ago and much of this shift is due to advances in technology. Students not only are asked to use technology to aid their studies, but fully integrate it in their academic careers. We can help our student athletes at CMU continue to stay on the cutting edge of academic success by purchasing and updating current computers, printers, scanners and software.
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To better serve our student-athletes, it is crucial that the Academic Advising Staff enhances their skills by attending professional development seminars and conferences (N4A and NCAA). This will allow our staff to enhance their knowledge, improve networking skills and ensure that CMU advisers are in tune with current issues, practices and methods to better serve our student-athletes. This funding will also allow for Student-Athlete Advisory Committee members to participate in student-athlete leadership seminars and further enhance their overall student-athlete experience.
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